Turris Omnia: hi-performance & open-source router

[IAAI]

What makes this router different than our new asus/netgrear/linksys routers?


https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turris-omnia-hi-performance-open-source-router#/


I just saw this on indiegogo

What do you guys think of it ?
Anyone tried v1 of this router ?



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[Etz]

Well, from hardware side looks interesting and sure enough powerful.

From software side, I would not trust "automatically" pushed remote updates on such critical device as home gateway.

And most troubling for me is that they do use OpenWRT, but it seems to be heavily modded and they don`t seem to contribute their stuff to back to OpenWRT, so you would be stuck whatever they will provide.
Unless of course you are ready to compile your own WRT for it, from bits and pieces.

 

[ngerasimatos]

I agree, looks interesting. Wonder if they provide root access. I think automatic updates are fine, it probably rexpliles then kernel when it sees low network connectivity just like Google's OnHub does.

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[ml70]

The campaign was 858% funded on Jan 12th but you can still get a Turris Omnia for $229, now they also have a 2GB RAM upgrade for $49, and LTE module for $119, that's going to be a kick butt router.
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/turris-omnia-hi-performance-open-source-router#/story

 

[Razor512]

It seems really overpriced, and offers very little for your money. Furthermore, they leave out many important details such as info on the transceivers used. While the SOC in this case,is decent, it takes more than a decent SOC to provide good routing performance.

Depending on which components you source, it is easy to make a device look like it is powerful, if you withhold the "right" details, e.g., the $50 China market smartphone with an 8 core 1.5GHz CPU, but can't handle 1080p video.

Beyond that, they charge insane prices for rather minor upgrades.

When I see a product like this with no channel tongather more info (e.g., fccid), then I have to assume, one China market cheapest components possible, 100mw transmit power WiFi radios.

 

[sfx2000]

And most troubling for me is that they do use OpenWRT, but it seems to be heavily modded and they don`t seem to contribute their stuff to back to OpenWRT, so you would be stuck whatever they will provide.

Would be interesting when it ships to do a GPL pull request...

 

[RMerlin]

Would be interesting when it ships to do a GPL pull request...

It's just OpenWRT.

https://github.com/CZ-NIC/turris-os

 

[stevech]

OpenWRT with max hype.
"The genius is not in the engineering, it's in the marketing!"

 

[System Error Message]

i checked the details about this router. There is a variant with more ram but theres no image of a dimm slot. The CPU is the ARM A9 and has 3 cpu connected ports. 4 of the ports are on a switch connected to cpu with 1 Gb/s and the other 2 ports are cpu connected. There is no SATA despite the SoC supporting it but the SFP and mini PCIe is a big change.

 

[sfx2000]

i checked the details about this router. There is a variant with more ram but theres no image of a dimm slot. The CPU is the ARM A9 and has 3 cpu connected ports. 4 of the ports are on a switch connected to cpu with 1 Gb/s and the other 2 ports are cpu connected. There is no SATA despite the SoC supporting it but the SFP and mini PCIe is a big change.

Care to share - keeping in mind that I've done a couple of designs... the images on the indiegogo thing, they're just renderings...

 

[sfx2000]

It's just OpenWRT.

https://github.com/CZ-NIC/turris-os

It's still a monolithic build... which all OpenWRT's are...

meh... in many ways, this is no different than any other device...

Would be nice to just do an "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade", "emerge -uDU --with-bdeps=y @world" or similar depending on distro... if one wants to get all BSD on folks, they have ways there as well to do a rolling install...

 

[System Error Message]

i did share it already. It uses a dual core ARM A9 which is what they didnt mention. Other than that the details are on their website. They have msata though but no sata.

 

[pege63]

well its interesting and you can swap and upgrade by yourself lets see wath future brings

This was the first version who was given out to 1000 user for testing.

V1

V1.1

 

[pege63]

https://www.nanog.org/sites/default/files/monday_filip_projectturris_62.4.pdf
https://www.terena.org/activities/tf-csirt/meeting43/Turris.pdf
https://ripe71.ripe.net/presentations/181-Turris-20151119-OF-RIPE.pdf
https://prplworks.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/turris-20151008-bk-openwrt_summit.pdf

 

[System Error Message]

Wheres the promised SFP?

 

[pege63]

 

[System Error Message]

look at the video, it doesnt match the diagram. Wheres the SFP?

 

[pege63]

SFP is beside the RTC battery slot, between WAN & USB3, no?

 

[htismaqe]

SEM is right, the unboxing video clearly shows 2 USB ports on the rear, right-hand side.

I think the confusion is coming from the pictures. The blue "Project Turris" unit is not the same. The router board for the Omnia does not match - the router board has an SFP in the rear as well as 12 LEDs and a front USB port on the LEFT.

The blue "Project Turris" unit in the unboxing video has a front USB port on the RIGHT and only 8 LEDs.

 

[pege63]

Yes but its dif Ver of prototype routers the end product will be white and i would rather see a 3x3 on the N wifi side